Sometimes the Cuba embargo can be good for U.S. business — at least for the business of U.S. law firms. In the latest turn of events in the Purolite saga, which involves trading by a Purolite foreign subsidiary with Cuba,…
The apparently never-ending fight over the trademark for “Havana Club” rum made a detour through the Office of Foreign Assets Control and into the Federal District Courtroom of Judge Royce Lamberth. At issue was an OFAC decision that effectively denied…
. . . especially when the newspaper is Granma, the official daily “newspaper” of the Cuban government. Export law news being somewhat slow in these final weeks of August, I thought it might be amusing to see what Granma had…
An excellent news story in the Miami Herald by Douglas Hanks on the Travelocity fine, which we first blogged about here, raises some interesting questions. (Full disclosure: Hanks interviewed me for the article). First, Hanks (being a real reporter and…
USA*Engage recently released a report on foreign countermeasures that have been applied to the extraterritorial application of unilateral U.S. sanctions. Most of the incidents covered in the report have been discussed here — such as the eviction of a Cuban…